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Openwork panel (plaque ajourée; colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

Openwork panel (plaque ajourée; colonnettes; frise d'arcatures) (Front)

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Subject
Religious. Infancy of Christ. Saints.

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Cracow, Czartoryski Museum

Inv. XIII-1584

Ivory;wood and fabric (later frame)

Height: 106mm
Width: 73mm

Register 1: saint John the Baptist holding the Lamb of God (Agnus Dei); camel hide; saint Stephen holding a stone and a martyr's palm. Saint Catherine of Alexandria with wheel and martyr's palm; unidentified saint holding a flail.
Register 2: Annunciation; vase of lilies; dove of the Holy Spirit. Visitation.
Pointed trefoils.

Koechlin Number: 0380

Koechlin 1924: France, end of the 14th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Wooden panel. Printed label: '399'. Label with handwritten inscription: 'MNK XIII V.384'.

Object Condition
Several breakages on the right side of the panel. It has been set into a wooden frame, possibly to hold the pieces into place.

Bibliography
R. Koechlin, Les Ivoires gothiques français (Paris, 1924), I, p. 189; II, no. 380.

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